It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

  • -- Eric Temple Bell 埃里克·坦普尔·贝尔

正是数学本身的永葆青春,使它与其他科学令人不安的不朽性相区别。

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Surely, it is in youth man is most thoroughly depraved. Hell lies about us in our infancy. The youthful innocency sung by aged poets who forget their first childhood is nothing but ignorance of evil. As the child comes to know evil, he loves it.

当然,青年时代的人最堕落。在我们幼年时,地狱就在我们周围。年老的诗人唱着青春的天真,忘记了他们的第一个童年,那只不过是对邪恶的无知。当孩子逐渐认识到邪恶时,他就爱上了它。

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

我们所观察的宇宙,如果其本质上没有设计、没有目的、没有恶、没有善,只有盲目、无情的冷漠,那么它就具有我们所期望的特性。

My native country was full of youthful promise; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age.

我的祖国充满了青春的希望;欧洲有着丰富的历史积淀。

A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science.

一位数学家认为用方程式来描述水星的速度相当于科学。

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

在数学上,我们早就控制不住自己,放弃了一场无望的竞赛。

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

诗歌是数学的一种形式,与文字有着高度严格的联系。

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.

我承认永生是不可能的。但总得有人做第一。